Life on the Refrigerator Door
Life on the Refrigerator Door - Alice Kuipers
Thank you Harper Collins and Alice Kuipers for this ARC. First, the positives: interesting format, clever concept, extremely easy to read. However, the big negative is this: if the main character of a book dies, shouldn't you care??? The note gimmick (the entire book is notes between a mother and a daughter left on the fridge) does not do this story justice, and would have been better as chapter intros, with traditional narrative to fill in the many missing pieces. Some people might love this, mainly, I imagine, because it is so easy to read, but I think most readers will be left feeling shortchanged.
This was my 9th book of the month, bringing me to 49 YTD.
June 2007.
Thank you Harper Collins and Alice Kuipers for this ARC. First, the positives: interesting format, clever concept, extremely easy to read. However, the big negative is this: if the main character of a book dies, shouldn't you care??? The note gimmick (the entire book is notes between a mother and a daughter left on the fridge) does not do this story justice, and would have been better as chapter intros, with traditional narrative to fill in the many missing pieces. Some people might love this, mainly, I imagine, because it is so easy to read, but I think most readers will be left feeling shortchanged.
This was my 9th book of the month, bringing me to 49 YTD.
June 2007.
posted by Rhon | 12:38 PM
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Elle Canada reviewed this in the October 2007 issue and recommended it. Did the reviewer read it????
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